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MARIE HERISON MARUI AND HYOKICHI MARUI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FOUNTAIN ATTACHMENT FOR PENS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 3, 1917.

Application filed December 11, 1915. Serial No. 66,235.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Manna Hiiiuson Manor, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and T'TYOKIGHI MARUI, a subject of the Emperor of Japan, andresidents of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FountainAttachments for Pens, of which the following is a specification.

This device is intended as a means for supplying a quantity of ink to anordinary writing pen so as to avoid the necessity of dipping the peninto the ink at the frequent intervals required when using an ordinarypen, and although we are aware that devices having certain of thefeatures of our invention have been produced in the past we haveendeavored to improve upon such devices as to extend the scope of theirusefulness.

The device proper consists of a spoon and we have so constructed ourinvention that it may be utilized with any pen or holder, and may becontinued in service even after the first pen with which it is employedhas become useless.

The object of our invention is simplicity, efliciency and cheapness andthe construction will be fully set forth as the specificationprogresses.

The following is what we consider the best means of carrying out thisinvention.

The accompanying drawing forms a part of this specification, in whichFigure 1 shows a side elevation of a pen and pen holder, the dottedlines showing the position of our device.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of a pen with This and the remaining viewsare on a large scale.

Fig. 3 is an elevation of our device alone.

Fig. 4 is a top plan view.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of a slightly modified construction.

Fig. 6 is a side elevation showing a certain operation of our invention.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in all the figures wherethey appear.

We have stated that our invention was intended to be employed with anordinary pen and holder and in Fig. 1 we show an ordinary pen indicatedat 7 and a holder therefor as shown at 8. This holder may have a softfinger grip 9 which may be of rubber or any other suitable material. The

pen 7 is adapted to be inserted into the holder, in a manner common toall steel pens or the like and we desire it understood that the holdermay be of any size or design and that although we have shown what issometimes termed a falcon pen the style of pen or the size of thisimportant member need not be specifically setforth as our device willoperate with equal facility with any and all pens.

Our device consists of a bowl or spoon of a convenient depth and of anarea that will cause or allow the upper or open part to be entirelycovered by the pen. Such a bowl is shown at 10 and it will be noted thatthe outer or free portion is tapered as indicated at 11 for the purposeof allowingthe ink to flow freely toward the point of the pen when thepen is held in position for writing.

The inner or back portion of the bowl may be straight or nearly so asshown at 12, and the sides 13 and 1 1, should extend upwardly to theplane of the inner portion of the pen.

Formed integral. with the bowl is a neck 15 which extends from the bowlto terminate in a hilt portion 16 which is of a width greater than theneck portion 15.

The hilt 16 of our device should be formed as a section of a cylinder,the radius of which coincides with the radius of that portion of a penwhich is to be inserted into the holder, and the length of the portion16 should be sufficient to allow the device to be securely held.

The sizes of the parts need not be limited within any definite bounds,but we have discovered that to operate with the greatest satisfactionthe bowl should be entirely covered or should be contained within theoutline of the pen and it will also be noted that the opening 17 in theupper side of the bowl is restricted and that it tapers from the backtoward the point end as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

Thus far we have said nothing as to the material employed. We preferhowever that our invention be constructed of annealed German silver orbrass or of any other flexible metal. The flexibility is important undersome conditions for with certain shapes of pens it will be an advantageto bend the neck 5 in the manner shown in Fig. 6, so that only theextreme point 18 will contact with tht pen. This is important With penshaving exceedingly large openings 19 or under other conditions which 7 AWe need not set forth.

We have also found that with certain types of holders a straight oruncurved hilt the scope of the appended claims Without departing fromthe principle or sacrificing the advantages of this invention.

'Having carefully and fully described our invention What We claim anddesire to secure 7 by Letters'Patent is 1. A fountain attachment forpens having a boWl and a hllt extendlng in a continuous line upon ageneral plane, and a resilient Copies of this patent may be obtained forfive cents each, by addressing the neck connecting said boWl and hilt,to allow the open edge of said bowl to be retained upon the surface ofthe concaved side of a pen as herein specified.

2. A fountain attachment for pens having neck of reduced area connectingsaid bowl and hilt.

Signed at New York city, in the county and State of New November, 1915.

MARIE HERTSON MARUI. HYOKIGHI M AR'UI.

Vitnesses G. E. S. Mann,

ARTHUR PHELPS MARK.

York this 27th day of Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. 0.

